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I took these with my Olympus 50mm macro, not knowing how long the bug would remain. It was on a very pale yellow Gladiolus flower. I subsequently realised that the bug was not inclined to move from the flower or its stems and took the Laowa shots I posted yesterday.

The first image has not been cropped, the others have and show a sequence when the bug opened its wings and folder them away again.

You need your imagination to see any red in the legs but that is its name. this was in our garden. I think it was on a plant close to a fence. Anyway, I couldn't get in position for a head-on shot. I was disappointed but have come to appreciate the image with the bug looking away.

Over several summers, I have been trying to get good images of this Harvestman species. It lurks under lumps of rotten wood on the ground, where it is quite easy to find. Usually, as soon as it is exposed to daylight, it dives into the nearest dark crevice. This time, it moved around a bit but permitted some shots. I had to accept the strip of dead plant material in some shots but it does not obscure the most important details when the stereo is viewed.

The FOV is ca 7mm wide.

The insect is very black to the naked eye. I have tried to represent this without making the images too dark to show detail.

Dock bugs are usually to be found on most summer days on our rhubarb leaves. This year, they have been less abundant and not so easy to find so I was surprised to see this congregation. The nymphs always look very robustly armoured.

I had wanted to photograph this species of springtail with my Laowa 25mm lens but had not found it where expected, on some rotting Sycamore logs.

I was photographing a colony of slime mould through the lens when this individual jumped off the rotting apple wood, where I had never found it before. I was working at the lowest magnification of the lens and had no effective provision for confining and photographing a springtail. The lid of a rigid, transparent specimen box had to suffice. Keeping track of the very mobile subject gave me no chance to change to a more suitable magnification.

The images have been cropped significantly to increase the magnification. The stereo is crosseye.